Tuesday, September 30, 2008

I can’t express exactly how shockingly impressive the opening twenty minutes of this Blu-ray release were. I came out of Evil Dead II pleasantly surprised and even impressed by the changes an HD transfer can make, but here it was in a whole other league.

Then, just as you are comfortable with how striking this clean up is, we cut to an interior shot and it all goes to hell.

Unlucky (although in Ash's case, everything is unlucky) issue #13 is here! In the past, dynamite has killed Ash, sent him to fight the Marvel Zombies, hooked him up with Xena, Freddy, Ash and Jason (not all at once)... so what do they have planned for this issue? Find out in August from writers James Kuhoric, Mike Raicht and artist Fernando Blanco!

Dark Horse Comics presents a trade paperback adaptation of the film, collecting the four-issue mini series. Written by Mark Verheiden with art by John Bolton, the book takes fans on a journey back to that the run down cabin in the wilderness where evil awaits.

I am skilled in chainsaw repair, so that is important. I found the real Homelite XL in a scrap pile, so it needed to be broken down completely, cleaned, oiled, and reassembled. There was too much work that could be videotaped, but I can explain the steps for everything later.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Starting in October and running through the New Year will be Bruce Campbell's highly anticipated My Name Is Bruce (trailer) promo-tour! Mr. Campbell updated his official website with a complete list of dates and locations for the tour, so read on to find out if you're one of the lucky few who get to see the film first!

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

"I think this is a movie that will shock, horrify and amuse folks,” he says. “I want to mess with the audience’s heads, and this movie is gonna do that. Big time." Campbell also wants you to know that My Name is Bruce is not really a comment on his typically obsessed fan base. "99 per cent of fans are awesome," he says. "But there is always the remaining one per cent. So we decided to build the story of this around them.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Now that My Name Is Bruce is completely finished, the actor-director will be traveling with the movie to personally introduce the screenings. "I'm going to 22 cities, screening the movie and doing Q&A's afterward... basically just introducing the movie to the freaks." That will put him in New York for a screening at the Sunshine Cinema on Halloween night. "Most of the year I have to walk around wearing some kind of costume," comments Campbell. "I will be going as Bruce Campbell that night." But if he could have cast someone else to play him in this latest movie, who would he choose? That's easy: "Elvis Presley, of course."

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Yes you read that right Bruce Campbell and Mr T in a film, how on earth can one film contain these two? God knows but they are set to star in a new animated film by Sony Pictures called Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. They will be joined by Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Andy Samberg, James Caan and Tracy Morgan.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Mandate and Ghost House Pictures have just made out like bandits on a deal that will give them the rights to remake two Danish films, one of which is the supernatural/alien flick The Substitute. According to the Hollywood Reporter, The Substitute has been set up at Columbia and is being developed separately from the main Mandate slate, but it will be released under the Ghost House banner, which Mandate runs in concert with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. Raimi and Tapert will produce and Josh Donen, Nathan Kahane, Bornedal and Michael Obel will exec produce. Andrea Giannetti is overseeing for Columbia. The Substitute centers on a sixth-grade class and its substitute teacher who turns out to be an alien.

9.14.08Cinema Wastleland is coming up Oct. 3,4 and 5 in Strongsville, Ohio at the Holiday Inn Select. Tom and his trusty sidekick Pat Reese will be showing off the Movie Memorabilia Museum and Art Print Gallery. Go to the Cinema Wasteland site for more information.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

“A lot of the people who follow what I do only want to see me do certain things,” he said, not complaining. Some of his fans, he said, want to know why his “Burn Notice” character, a low-key former F.B.I. operative, doesn’t have more fight scenes. “I’ve been trying,” he said, “but three or four weeks ago I was trying to kick a stuntman in the face and blew my hamstring. It was two days after I turned 50. I must have reached my expiration date.”

Monday, September 8, 2008

Producer Don Carmody and partners are in negotiations with Spiderman director Sam Raimi to bring to the screen the musical version of the former horror meister's Evil Dead films, Evil Dead: The Musical.

Conceived by George Reinblatt, Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris, the camp stage interpretation of Raimi’s cult classic horror trilogy was originally mounted in Toronto and Montreal and has since gone off-Broadway.

Original directors Bond and choreographer Hinton Battle are lined up to co-direct the film version, which will be presented in 3-D.

Friday, September 5, 2008

After numerous delays, the new Bruce Campbell movie, “My Name Is Bruce,” has finally announced an October release date, but for comic book fans, the first taste of the long-awaited film will come a month earlier. A one-shot comic book companion to the movie, written by Milton Freewater, Jr. and penciled by Cliff Richards, is due out on September 24th from Dark Horse Comics.

Tobey Maguire will be back to play web-slinging super Spider-Man in the series' fourth big-screen installment — and director Sam Raimi will return to helm — Nikki Finke reported Friday (September 5) on her blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily. The news ends more than a year of hemming and hawing, denials, reversals and unconfirmed speculation.

MNIB is directed in an enjoyable, clean way. The photography is simple and lets you concentrate on the movie; pacing, lighting, editing, it all works perfectly. The performances are pitch-perfect, from the major characters to the minor, going for the comedy but rarely going too far.

Here’s the deal on the band. I’m a big fan of Bruce Campbell and the Evil Dead films. I was paging through The Voice looking at all of the hundreds of bands playing at venues across the city. I thought to myself, a lot of these bands are probably pretty good, but if I didn’t already know who they were, why would I go see any of them. I WOULD be interested, however, if I saw a band that had something to do with something I was already interested in, like the Evil Dead films.

Ted Raimi (Spider-Man 3SeaQuest DSV), actor and brother of Legend of the Seeker executive producer Sam Raimi, will guest star in an upcoming episode of the epic fantasy series Legend of the Seeker, it was announced today. The fourth installment, titled "Bounty," will showcase Raimi playing the character of Sebastian, a mapmaker skilled in the lost art of cartogromancy -- the making of enchanted maps. Sebastian, a sly and clever character, once served kings but now he has been reduced to selling his services to bounty hunters.

Monday, September 1, 2008

BD: You have worked on over 100 films thus far, most of them horror, what are some of your favorite experiences?

GN: THE LIST GOES ON AND ON….IN 20 YEARS Howard Berger and I have had our hands in CLOSER TO 700 FILMS…EVERYTHING FROM THE GREEN MILE and GRINDHOUSE to MEN IN BLACK, RESERVOIR DOGS, TRANSFORMERS and MINORITY REPORT. Some of the best memories come from films like DAY OF THE DEAD, EVIL DEAD 2, THE MIST, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN…

8. EVIL DEAD 2 (1987)Gore just doesn't get any giddier than Sam Raimi's sequel-slash-remake (emphasis on slash), which finds average-guy Ash Williams facing off against the undead, armed with a chain saw and one-liners like ''Let's head down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch.''